Java Software Engineer

Guidewire’s Cloud Application and Integration Services Product development team is looking for a smart, proactive, and results-oriented intermediate level Java Engineer to build elegant solutions for the property & casualty insurance industry’s complex business domain and make our industry-leading products even better. For US-based employees, this position can be a 100% remote role, even post-pandemic.

Create real impact. One customer at a time.

Guidewire is a top cloud employer on Glassdoor with a startup frame of mind and the world-class platform for global Property & Casualty market.

Fresh challenges every day

If you’re up for taking on comprehensive projects, ready to run head on into change and comfortable with the uncomfortable, you’ll fit right in here. Join Guidewire as a Java Software Engineer.

• Collegiality – We value strong teams. We work together as professional equals. We strive to continuously improve our processes and make realistic assumptions to maintain a reasonable work-life balance. We are trusted to manage our own time. We value ideas, not titles. We welcome and consider contrary opinions.
• Integrity – We insist on truthful relationships with customers, prospective customers, partners, investors, and each other in everything that we do.
• Rationality – We communicate through clear arguments. We decide carefully based on factual evidence. We like calm, systematic, thoughtful solutions. We believe in testing. We never assume that we’re building software the “best” way, and constantly seek to improve our processes.

Key qualifications include experience with:

• 3+ years of extensive Java Programming Skills.
• Familiarity with Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Unit/Integration Testing, etc
• Experience with microservices architecture and containers
• Experience building secure software and knowledge of security practices
• Object-Oriented Design using SOLID and Hexagonal design principles
• Experience working with Open Source frameworks such as Spring, Hibernate, jBPM, and others
• Strong understanding of relational database persistence (e.g. MySQL, Oracle). Familiarity with NoSQL databases (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB) is a plus
• Agile development practices
• Experience designing REST or gRPC based APIs
• Cloud Services (e.g. AWS/GCP/Azure)
• Technical design and leadership of features from inception to release
• Mentoring less experienced engineers
• Effective collaboration with different stakeholders while leading features (e.g. Architects, PMs, PgMs)
• Maintaining and promoting a healthy codebase and ensuring high quality of products
• The ideal candidate would have a Computer Science degree or equivalent and will share our core values: Collegiality, Integrity, and Rationality.

Successful software engineers at Guidewire typically have:

• A desire to work collaboratively in an empowered, small, cross-functional team
• Experience working in an agile and fast paced development environment (e.g. TDD, BDD, Agile, pair programming, etc.)
• A passion for code quality demonstrated by thorough testing
• A desire to be hands-on in designing and writing code
• Curiosity and internal motivation to constantly improve
• Ability to learn quickly in a dynamic environment
• Excellent communication skills, comfort level to speak their mind and defend ideas based on merit, yet humility and hunger to learn from others.

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Who We Are

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About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently.

Guidewire combines core, data, digital, analytics, and AI to deliver our platform as a cloud service. More than 400 insurers, including the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire.

As a partner to our customers, we continually evolve to enable their success. We are proud of our unparalleled implementation track record with 1000+ successful projects, supported by the largest R&D team and partner ecosystem in the industry. Our Marketplace provides hundreds of add-ons that accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

Guidewire Software, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We are committed to an inclusive workplace, and believe that a diversity of perspectives, abilities, and cultures is a key to our success. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, citizenship, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability. All offers are contingent upon passing a criminal history and other background checks where it’s applicable to the position.

Disability Accommodations and Guidewire’s Appeals Process. Guidewire provides accommodations to the hiring process to create a fair opportunity for candidates with disabilities to contend for open positions. Accommodation requests should be directed to (650) 356-4940 or [email protected] If things do not go as hoped, we invite you to use our appeals process. Guidewire promises to independently review any denied accommodation and any decision not to offer you the position. The appeals process is the same in either case. Within five business days of receiving a notice of denial of an accommodation, or receiving a notice of your non-selection for a vacancy, call (650) 356-4940 or e-mail [email protected] to make an appeal. Guidewire will assign a new decision-maker to review the request and/or hiring decision, who will then notify you in writing of a decision within 10 business days.